Carlos Ruiz Martínez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582393 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carlos Ruiz Martínez |
| PRENOMES | Carlos Ruiz |
| SOBRENOME | Martínez |
| ASSINATURA | MARTINEZ C R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6596-2807 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Carcerality, Care, and the Abolitionist Horizon on Ethnography's Edges
Medical anthropology has long examined the entanglements of care and violence (Buch, 2015;Rhodes, 2004).Building on this tradition, anthropologists have increasingly attended to how practices and institutions of care become intertwined with carceral forces, including prisons, policing, and other forms of punitive governance (Sue, 2019; Sufrin, 2017).The contributions to this special issue broaden this scholarship, equipping medical anthropologist…
They Look At Us Like Parasites”
This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive rehabilitation. Deportees are subjected to carceral and medicalized interventions that blur the boundaries be…
How Anti-Immigrant Policies Impact Research Among Latinx and Undocumented People Who Use Drugs
Since January 2025, anti-immigrant policies, criminalization, and xenophobic rhetoric have rapidly intensified, threatening the health and well-being of Latinx communities. Under new executive orders, funding and research related to racial health disparities and equity is being scaled back or halted. The negative effects of immigration enforcement on the health of Latinx communities have been well documented. Less is known about how the implement…
Unruly Waters, Unsanitary Bodies Abject Terrains, Rehabilitation, and Infrastructures of Dispossession on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among homeless deportees living in the Tijuana River canal, I examine how the ‘rehabilitation’ of toxic terrains can have corporeal and social consequences for those inhabiting such spaces. For decades, the Tijuana River basin traversing the U.S.–Mexico border has been perceived by officials from both countries as an unruly body of water. Prone to persistent flooding, the canal also experiences flows of toxic sew…
Faith and Power
Reviewed by: Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 eds. by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. González Carlos Ruiz Martinez Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. González, eds. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York: New York University Press, 2022) Historians have notoriously overlooked the role of religion in US Latina/o history and politics. The essays in Faith and Power: Latino Relig…
Waiting in Captivity
In recent years, the US government has implemented several bureaucratic changes aimed at stalling the influx of asylum seekers. From the “metering” system initiated under the Obama administration to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) implemented by the Trump administration, these measures have erected a bureaucratic wall against asylum seekers that has kept them captive in Mexican border cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in …
How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border
Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants' vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians and organizations. This commentary examines how the concept of transnational solidarity facilitates an…
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
Deported, homeless, and into the canal
Human rights to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are routinely violated among El Bordo inhabitants. This is exacerbated by violent policing practices that force unhoused deportees to seek refuge in waterways, and drive water contacts. Furthermore, US-Mexico 'free-trade' agreements drive rapid growth in Tijuana, restrict Mexican environmental regulation enforcement, and drive underinvestment in sewage systems and infrastructure
Structural vulnerability
Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studies: one at the USA–Mexico border and another in Djibouti. Migrants’ and providers’ various entangleme…
Covid-19 and the political geography of racialisation
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems around the globe, and intensified the lethality of social and political inequality. In the United States, where public health departments have been severely defunded, Black, Native, Latinx communities and those experiencing poverty in the country's largest cities are disproportionately infected and disproportionately dying. Based on our collective ethnographic work in three global cities in the…
Deborah E. Kanter, Chicago Católico
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 160–162 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.16 Book Review Deborah E. Kanter, Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020) Carlos Ruiz Martinez University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA In 1924 Elidia Barroso deboarded a passenger train and entered the grand lobby of Chicago’s Union Station. There she met up with …
Karl Marx em Wuhan
Este artigo compara a resposta do Estado chinês à pandemia da Covid-19 com as dos principais países capitalistas ocidentais. Reúne provas que mostram que a China mobilizou recursos governamentais, econômicos, tecnológicos, científicos e humanos sem precedentes a fim de controlar o surto viral. Em países como os Estados Unidos e o Reino Unido, por outro lado, a resposta à Covid-19 tem sido até agora insuficiente, e como resultado, estes países não…
Amazon forest on the edge of collapse in the Maranhão State, Brazil
They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
Reviewed by: They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among US Farmworkers by Sarah Bronwen Horton Carlos Martinez and Seth M. Holmes Sarah Bronwen Horton, They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among US Farmworkers. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 312 pp. At first blush, California's Central Valley may not seem the stereotypical example of anthropology's classic dista…
Towards zero deforestation and forest restoration in the Amazon region of Maranhão state, Brazil
El Salvador’s Dance Between Development and Displacement
Deported, homeless, and into the canal
Human rights to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are routinely violated among El Bordo inhabitants. This is exacerbated by violent policing practices that force unhoused deportees to seek refuge in waterways, and drive water contacts. Furthermore, US-Mexico 'free-trade' agreements drive rapid growth in Tijuana, restrict Mexican environmental regulation enforcement, and drive underinvestment in sewage systems and infrastructure
Towards zero deforestation and forest restoration in the Amazon region of Maranhão state, Brazil
Waiting in Captivity
In recent years, the US government has implemented several bureaucratic changes aimed at stalling the influx of asylum seekers. From the “metering” system initiated under the Obama administration to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) implemented by the Trump administration, these measures have erected a bureaucratic wall against asylum seekers that has kept them captive in Mexican border cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in …
Amazon forest on the edge of collapse in the Maranhão State, Brazil
El Salvador’s Dance Between Development and Displacement
Towards zero deforestation and forest restoration in the Amazon region of Maranhão state, Brazil
They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields
Reviewed by: They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among US Farmworkers by Sarah Bronwen Horton Carlos Martinez and Seth M. Holmes Sarah Bronwen Horton, They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among US Farmworkers. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 312 pp. At first blush, California's Central Valley may not seem the stereotypical example of anthropology's classic dista…
Karl Marx em Wuhan
Este artigo compara a resposta do Estado chinês à pandemia da Covid-19 com as dos principais países capitalistas ocidentais. Reúne provas que mostram que a China mobilizou recursos governamentais, econômicos, tecnológicos, científicos e humanos sem precedentes a fim de controlar o surto viral. Em países como os Estados Unidos e o Reino Unido, por outro lado, a resposta à Covid-19 tem sido até agora insuficiente, e como resultado, estes países não…
Amazon forest on the edge of collapse in the Maranhão State, Brazil
Structural vulnerability
Based on the authors’ work in Latin America and Africa, this article describes and applies the concept ‘structural vulnerability’ to the challenges of clinical care and healthcare advocacy for migrants. This concept helps consider how specific social, economic and political hierarchies and policies produce and pattern poor health in two case studies: one at the USA–Mexico border and another in Djibouti. Migrants’ and providers’ various entangleme…
Covid-19 and the political geography of racialisation
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems around the globe, and intensified the lethality of social and political inequality. In the United States, where public health departments have been severely defunded, Black, Native, Latinx communities and those experiencing poverty in the country's largest cities are disproportionately infected and disproportionately dying. Based on our collective ethnographic work in three global cities in the…
Deborah E. Kanter, Chicago Católico
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 160–162 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.16 Book Review Deborah E. Kanter, Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020) Carlos Ruiz Martinez University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA In 1924 Elidia Barroso deboarded a passenger train and entered the grand lobby of Chicago’s Union Station. There she met up with …
How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border
Migrants along the US-Mexico border have been subjected to transnational violence created by international policy, militaristic intervention, and multinational organizational administration of border operations. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded migrants' vulnerabilities and provoked several logistical and ethical problems for US-based clinicians and organizations. This commentary examines how the concept of transnational solidarity facilitates an…
Substance use policy and practice in the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented natural experiment in drug policy, treatment delivery, and harm reduction strategies by exposing wide variation in public health infrastructures and social safety nets around the world. Using qualitative data including ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (PWUD) and Delphi-method with experts from field sites spanning 13 different countrie…
Deported, homeless, and into the canal
Human rights to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are routinely violated among El Bordo inhabitants. This is exacerbated by violent policing practices that force unhoused deportees to seek refuge in waterways, and drive water contacts. Furthermore, US-Mexico 'free-trade' agreements drive rapid growth in Tijuana, restrict Mexican environmental regulation enforcement, and drive underinvestment in sewage systems and infrastructure
Unruly Waters, Unsanitary Bodies Abject Terrains, Rehabilitation, and Infrastructures of Dispossession on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among homeless deportees living in the Tijuana River canal, I examine how the ‘rehabilitation’ of toxic terrains can have corporeal and social consequences for those inhabiting such spaces. For decades, the Tijuana River basin traversing the U.S.–Mexico border has been perceived by officials from both countries as an unruly body of water. Prone to persistent flooding, the canal also experiences flows of toxic sew…
Faith and Power
Reviewed by: Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 eds. by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. González Carlos Ruiz Martinez Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. González, eds. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 (New York: New York University Press, 2022) Historians have notoriously overlooked the role of religion in US Latina/o history and politics. The essays in Faith and Power: Latino Relig…
Waiting in Captivity
In recent years, the US government has implemented several bureaucratic changes aimed at stalling the influx of asylum seekers. From the “metering” system initiated under the Obama administration to the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) implemented by the Trump administration, these measures have erected a bureaucratic wall against asylum seekers that has kept them captive in Mexican border cities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in …
They Look At Us Like Parasites”
This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive rehabilitation. Deportees are subjected to carceral and medicalized interventions that blur the boundaries be…
How Anti-Immigrant Policies Impact Research Among Latinx and Undocumented People Who Use Drugs
Since January 2025, anti-immigrant policies, criminalization, and xenophobic rhetoric have rapidly intensified, threatening the health and well-being of Latinx communities. Under new executive orders, funding and research related to racial health disparities and equity is being scaled back or halted. The negative effects of immigration enforcement on the health of Latinx communities have been well documented. Less is known about how the implement…
Carcerality, Care, and the Abolitionist Horizon on Ethnography's Edges
Medical anthropology has long examined the entanglements of care and violence (Buch, 2015;Rhodes, 2004).Building on this tradition, anthropologists have increasingly attended to how practices and institutions of care become intertwined with carceral forces, including prisons, policing, and other forms of punitive governance (Sue, 2019; Sufrin, 2017).The contributions to this special issue broaden this scholarship, equipping medical anthropologist…
Political science (13 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Medicine (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Ethnography (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Criminology (4 obras)